[RnMomof7]

Hey I remember ration stamp and oleo you had to squezze in a bag to give it "color"...and skimming the cream off the milk

[Dusty Rose]

In Wisconsin, the Dairy State, it was illegal to sell oleo in the grocery stores. People would take orders, then go over the border into Illinois to buy the "olee" and bring in back in the trunks of their cars. When oleo did become legal in Wisconsin, at first it was only the kind that needed to be squeezed to give it a color like butter. At least those are my recollections growing up in the fifties.
My Mom, a true Wisconsonite, still prefers her butter to olee.